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Due to an elbow injury, Hannah Hampton will miss England’s friendly against Brazil on Saturday, making one of the other goalkeepers’ debuts.

The 24-year-old saved two penalties in England’s final shootout victory over Spain, making it one of the stars of the Euro 2025 victory.

In Hampton’s absence, one of the backup goalkeepers, Khiara Keating or Anna Moorhouse, is expected to play at Etihad Stadium, but manager Sarina Wiegman won’t say who.

Lotte Wubben-Moy, a defensive defender for Arsenal, and Jess Park, a player for Manchester United, will both miss Saturday’s game due to illness.

“It’s not nice to have a injury, but it’s not a serious injury. The other goalkeepers also have a chance, Wiegman said on BBC Radio 5 Live.

We were going to try these friendly games anyway, and they’re good for that. Because there is only one position, it’s always harder to get goalkeepers.

Khiara Keating and Anna Moorhouse are two very different goalkeepers. A young, extremely talented player, Khiara.

Khiara plays out from the back and is very explosive on the line. Anna is extremely skilled at defending crosses. They are the differences because they play at her club a little differently and are more direct.

In a series of homecoming games to end the year, The Lionesses will celebrate their European successes by hosting four friendlies in succession.

England defender Alex Greenwood praised the other goalkeepers’ influence during Euro 2025, saying, “They have been very patient. They did a fantastic job of supporting both Hannah and the team over the summer.

In Leah Williamson’s absence, the Arsenal defender hasn’t played since having knee surgery, so Wiegman confirmed that Chelsea midfielder Keira Walsh will be the team captain for the game at Etihad Stadium (17:30 BST).

Walsh, 28, has a lifelong support base at Manchester City and spent eight years there before moving to Barcelona in 2022, breaking the previous record.

It’s a role that Keira genuinely deserves. She is incredibly influential, according to Greenwood, who probably doesn’t give herself enough credit in the leadership position.

Keira and I are a little older than each other, but she has a significant impact on this team both on and off the field.

She says, “Her experience and demands of high quality, day in, day out,”

Greenwood, who is the captain of Manchester City and has never played for England, will also have a “really special” night.

It’s similar to returning home, she said in a way. It will be a memory I’ll cherish for a long time. It’s been a while since we last played in Manchester (at Old Trafford), so it’s nice that I get to play on my side this time.

England’s preparation for the 2027 Women’s World Cup begins with a new cycle against Brazil.

In addition to the squad, Chelsea’s Lucia Kendall, an uncapped AFL player, Taylor Hinds, an Arsenal defender, and Grace Fisk, a Liverpool captain, are also in the squad.

With Wiegman’s former right-hand man Arjan Veurink joining the Netherlands as head coach and Janneke Bijl and Arvid Smit joining the Lionesses as assistant coaches, there have also been changes in the coaching staff.

“We won’t be starting fresh, so I think it’s important to see it as a new cycle.” “We’ll pick up where we left off,” Greenwood remarked.

“It’s important that we don’t put what we’ve done to bed and build on that, rather than take it away,” said the player and staff group.

Mohamed Salah’s form is the last thing Liverpool manager Arne Slot needs to think about, according to slot.

As Liverpool slipped into the Premier League title race, Salah was the team’s top scorer last season, scoring 29 goals and adding 18 assists.

The 33-year-old has only managed three league goals this season as Liverpool struggled to maintain their title-winning form after spending about £415 million on attacking talent in the summer.

After falling to Manchester United at Anfield four times in a row on Sunday night, Slot started Salah on the bench for their 5-1 Champions League victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.

When asked about Salah’s form at a news conference on Friday, Slot responded, “The main thing is that he always has scored goals for Liverpool.”

“Moto scoring goals once more is the last thing I worry about.” He has done that his entire life, and I anticipate that in the upcoming weeks and months.

Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, and Florian Wirtz were all incorporated into Slot’s revamped system in Frankfurt, but the Swede’s groin injury, which occurred in the first half, could cause Salah to be reinstated to the starting lineup at Brentford on Saturday.

The Egypt winger has lost seven Premier League games in a row without scoring a goal that is not a penalty since joining Liverpool in 2017.

Players generally miss chances in football, and he is a human being, said he. He’s not used to missing chances, Slot said.

The Liverpool manager claimed that Salah’s comparatively slow start to the season may be a result of the summer arrivals and the departure of right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold to Real Madrid.

Although he has played his entire Liverpool career [up until this season] with him, “it could be a factor,” Slot said.

Salah had seven goals and the same number of assists at this point last year. He only has three of both this season.

Erling Haaland, the winner of the Premier League Golden Boot last season, is already eight goals behind.

Cody Gakpo and Ekitike have both contributed more points this year, but Salah has already led the way in assists (three).

However, there are some positive aspects. Salah has 19 chances this season for Liverpool, down from his previous total of 21 after 12 games. He has thus far produced more open-play crosses than he did last season.

But why has his goal total dropped so dramatically this year?

This is a continuation of his poor form, which was evident towards the end of last season when he only managed three goals in Liverpool’s final 11 games.

Additionally, there are abundant signs that Liverpool are struggling to get him as much ball, with his average touches per game significantly lower than it has been throughout his Anfield career.

He is only allowing 1.6 dribbles per game, less than half of the average of the previous campaign, and he is only averaging just 6.2 touches in the opposition box this year.

Salah’s struggles are reflected in his struggles, whether it is due to his closer proximity to full-backs, his challenges adapting to the new signings, or simply his time catching up with him. His average of just 0.3% dribbles per game.

Liverpool’s new signings and playstyle may also be a factor. One exit also might exist.

The Egyptian forward’s departure from Real Madrid and Salah and Alexander-Arnold’s successful partnership down Liverpool’s right have likely had an impact on the pair.

Last season, Alexander-Arnold completed 147 line-breaking passes for Salah in the Premier League, or 39 more than any other team combined.

In the 33 league games that featured, according to data analyst Opta, Salah scored 27 goals on 33.8 shots per game, had a 0.48 non-penalty xG, and had 10.5 touches in the opposition’s box.

Salah has only scored four goals, two of which were penalties, in the 12 games Alexander-Arnold didn’t play across last season and this. He averages 2.3 shots per game, has a 0.3 non-penalty xG, and has 7.2 touches in the opposition’s box.

Is Salah already too late to be rejected? It is, of course,.

When he only scored one non-penalty goal in his final nine Premier League games between 2023 and 2024, some were suggesting that his age was catching up with him before he resurrected a season to remember last term.

Dedication.

If you want to break records, you need that. The well-known TV show theme song continued to play.

You would be hard pressed to find a place where dedication is paying off more handsomely than the Coventry Building Society Arena, despite the fact that only a select few of Coventry City’s current squad were born or are old enough to remember.

The Sky Blues are the only unbeaten professional team in England after 11 games of the championship season.

No club has scored more goals than 100 times in the top five leagues in Europe, and they currently have the best goals-per-game ratio in the second tier.

Only Bayern Munich can match Coventry’s plus 23 goals with Harry Kane’s 12 goals in seven games.

The likelihood of returning to the Premier League after 25 years is officially higher than 50%, and the ultimate goal is that it will be that way. Currently.

How did they accomplish this, then?

Never fall in love with a loan player, according to some people.

However, the Arctic Ocean’s lack of cold water will not extinguish Carl Rushworth’s fervor.

The 24-year-old Brighton goalkeeper has collected six clean sheets, five of which have come in succession, for the Sky Blues in 11 games.

With a record-breaking 613 minutes of play and no errors, that position was sealed for him in club history. That run would still be there if Portsmouth scored in the 90th minute on Tuesday for consolation.

However, Rushworth and his Fratton Park teammates’ efforts allowed him to surpass Horace Pearson’s previous 608-minute mark, which has been in effect since 1934.

Rushworth’s excellence, in Lampard’s opinion, is not surprising.

Although I always knew when we brought him in, he’s a very talented goalkeeper, and I’m really pleased for him with that record, he’s grown in confidence since then. He praised it, calling it a great accomplishment, according to him on BBC CWR.

More than ever, in the modern game, you defend from the front, but you occasionally have to acknowledge how well that was accomplished, and it’s amazing to have been there for such a short time and accomplish that.

“We are aware that going 1-0 up is not finished.”

Joint top-scorer Brandon Thomas-Asante nailed it, if there was a better way to sum up City’s mentality.

The Ghanaian has scored eight goals in his last three games and five in his most recent season. He is in the best form of his life.

He claimed that there are “many reasons” for his improved playing.

The boys are making things really easy for me, and I’m so happy to have these team-mates, she said. “It’s not just about me.

You won’t go away with eight goals, you know. I simply want to keep going.

Rob Gurney, a commentator for Sky Blues and BBC CWR Sports, described Thomas-Asante’s confidence as typical of a team that is in tune with Lampard’s demands.

They appear to be a very skilled and adaptable group, according to Gurney.

Coventry’s goals-per-game ratio has increased to 2.82 after 11 games thanks to Thomas-Asante’s exploits, along with fellow eight-goal man Hadji Wright and sixth-ranked Victor Torp.

A team hasn’t been more prolific in the second tier since Manchester City in 1903, when they scored 95 goals in a 34-game campaign.

If Coventry maintains their current ratio over the final 35 games, Middlesbrough’s (122) record of 1927 will be broken with 130 goals.

Fulham currently holds the record for 21st Century Champions, which was set four seasons ago.

And the difference between the goals?

Reading’s plus of 67 from that year, as well as the Royals’ point total of 106 from the same campaign, is the best in the second tier this century.

The Sky Blues are currently on pace to finish with 104 points per game.

Birmingham City last season broke the 111-game EFL record set by the team last year.

To recapture Coventry’s 11-game unbeaten season, defeating Watford on Saturday would be just as bad as Fulham’s 25-year-old start.

Some fans are already dreaming that this could be the year the club’s 25-year wait to return to the Premier League ends, despite the significant caveat that it is not yet November.

Football statisticians Opta estimated Coventry’s title-winning probability to be 50.6%, nearly three times higher than their chances of finishing second (18.9%), with 35 games still to play.

For context, Middlesbrough is currently one point behind the Sky Blues in second place, with 19.9% of the time being in the top 20 and 20.4% in second.

It should come as no surprise that Lampard is utilizing his entire squad.

The club was 17th, 10 points off the play-offs, and only two points above the relegation zone when he succeeded Mark Robins, a long-serving, and well-liked player, in November of last year.

On the way to the play-offs, he led the team’s best league run in 55 years, only to lose in the semi-final to Sunderland, who are tied for first in the Premier League.

Gurney claimed that, at least so far, hiring Lampard has turned out to be an “unbelievable call” by owner Doug King, and even King couldn’t have anticipated it would have turned out this well.

“The entire coaching staff deserves a lot of credit, especially Lampard, his number two Joe Edwards, and the rest of the players,” said Lampard.

The average CBS Arena attendance for this season is 29 (751), which is the highest home average since 1969-1970, and Gurney said it shows how momentum is growing.

With 10,000 people now a staple rather than an exception, Lampard has admitted in interviews that he didn’t realize how special the Sky Blue Army are.

Everyone seemed to be genuinely interested. A record 24, 000 season ticket holders’ story is told.

“Confidence, momentum, belief. Three frequently used football terms are currently owned by Coventry City under Lampard.